Maillotins Quotes & Sayings

One is not born a woman, but becomes one. — Simone De Beauvoir

I have come to know that faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief. — Boyd K. Packer

The trouble with creative work: Sometimes by the time people catch on to what's valuable about what you do, you're either a) bored to death with it, or b) dead. You can't go looking for validation from external sources. Once you put your work into the world, you have no control over the way people will react to it. — Austin Kleon

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority. — Mariella Frostrup

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. — Douglas Adams

The wave of insurrection passed, leaving little change in the condition of the working class. Inertia in the scales of history weighs more heavily than change. Four hundred years were to elapse before the descendants of the Maillotins seized the Bastille. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I still feel sad. Maybe I'll always
feel sad." It wasn't the kind of sorrow that brought tears anymore, though. The sadness
simply was part of me now. It had settled into my bones and I just kind of figured it'd
always be there. "But I don't feel crazy. — Mia Sheridan

India ... was like an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously ... Though outwardly there was diversity and infinite variety among our people, everywhere there was that tremendous impress of oneness, which had held all of us together for ages ... [India] was a world in itself, a culture and a civilization which gave shape to all things. Foreign influences poured in ... and were absorbed. Disruptive tendencies gave rise immediately to an attempt to find a synthesis. Some kind of a dream of unity has occupied the mind of India since the dawn of civilization. That unity was not conceived as something imposed from outside, a standardization of externals or even of beliefs. It was something deeper and, within its fold, the widest tolerance of belief and custom was practiced and every variety acknowledged and even encouraged. — Shashi Tharoor